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WHIP SOCKET No. 292,061. Patented m. 15,-1884.

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ANS ON SEARLS, OF NEWARK, NEXV JERSEY.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,061, dated January 15, 1884.

Application filed January 2, 1883. Renewed November 14, I883. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANSON SEARLS, residing in the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful- Improvement in Whip-Socket Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same, in which-- Figure 1 is a side view of the upper portion of a whip-socket with my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the socket and fastener turned quarter round from the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is I 5 a cross-section on line 00 a, Fig. 1, of the socket, showing the upper face view of the fastener; and Fig. 4 is a section on line 3 3 Fig. 1, of the socket and fastener, showing a central section of the fastener.

A is the body of a common tubular whipsocket, made of iron or wood, as preferred.

The fastener is composed of a buckleframe, a metallic flexible strap, and a screw. The buckleframe consists of two side plates, 2 5 a a, connected by a center cross-bar, b, and two end bars, 12 and b". The bar I) (a cross-section is shown in Fig. 4) is broad and concaved on its outer face to fit the curvature of the socket when laid lengthwise upon it. The sides a a are deeply concave on their outer edges to receive and fit to the dash-rail of a vehicle. On the cross-bar b is formed a lug or projection, 0, provided with a screw:

threaded hole to receive a screw, d. The

5 cross-bars b and b-one or bothare provied with spurs e c. The buckle-frame is secured rigidly to the socket, preferably by a rivet, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The sides a a of the buckle-frame are wide enough to 40 leave sufficient free space between the outer face of the cross-bar b and the dash-rail, when resting in the concave edges of said sides, to permit the end of the flexible metallic strap, hereinafter described, to lie between said dash-rail and cross-bar in engagement with the spur on the said cross-bar.

O is a flexible metal band, one end of which is provided with a hole or holes to engage with the spurs e a, one or both, thereby se- 0 curing that end in the buckle-frame, as

shown. The strap is then bent back uponitself, forming a loop, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4, and the outer end is provided with a hole, through which the screw d passes into the lug c. The opposite end is inserted between the 5 5 sides a a under the cross-bar b and over upon the cross-bar b, the spurs on said barsone or bothengaging the hole or holes in the said end of the strap.

The dash-rail of the vehicle is clamped between the concave edges of the sides a a of the buckle-frame and the said strap 0, which is tightened upon the rail by turning down the screw d. 1

In order that the strap 0 shall bend readily, so as to form a properlyshaped loop (as shown in Figs. 3 and 4) to clamp the dashrail of a vehicle, a part of the metal is cut away, leaving a slotted opening, f, at the bend of the loop, as seen plainly in Fig. 1.

What I claimas my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The described whip-socket fastener, consisting of the described buoklefranie rigidly attached to the socket and composed of the 7 sides a a and the cross-bars b, b, and b", said bars b and b-one or bothbeing provided with spurs, as specified, and the bar I) being provided with the perforated screw-threaded lug 0, together with the flexible looped perforated metallic strap 0, one end of which is inserted between the said sides a a under the said cross-bar b and over upon the cross-bar b and in engagement with the spurs on said barsone or boththe opposite end being secured to the said lug c by a screw, (2, all constructed and arranged to operate asand for the purpose described.

2. The combination, in a whip-socket fastener, of the described buckle -frame, com 90 posed of the sides a a and the crossbars b b 11*, the bars b and bone or bothbeing provided with spurs, as specified, and the bar I) being provided with the perforated screw-threaded lug c, and screw d, with the flexible looped perforated metallic strap 0, having the slotted opening f, all as and for the purpose de scribed.

ANSON SEARLS. In presence of A. G. 'N. VERMILYA, HENRY EICHLING. 

